Recently, led by the academician Nanshan Zhong and associate research fellow Guan Weijie, the original research article of the bronchiectasia team “The role of Epstein-Barr virus in adults with bronchiectasis: A prospective cohort study” was published online at the Open Forum Infectious Diseases (IF: 3.656), the official journal of IDSA, and became a paper of the Editor’s choice.

It was discovered in the research that EB virus could be detected in the saliva of 48.1% of the patients, which was obviously higher than that of the normal control group (20.0%). Interestingly, those patients detected with EB virus at the first time were more likely to continuously separate EB virus (continuously detected) in the subsequent clinical follow-up. On the contrary, those patients who were not detected with EB virus at the first time were very likely to not separate EB virus in subsequent clinical follow-up. Though the detection rate of EB was higher, its load showed no obvious difference from that of normal control group. The detection state and load of EB virus are irrelevant with the colonization state of pseudomonas aeruginosa.